Hang on a minute - this isn't about Sadiq Khan's brilliance or otherwise: it's about the absurd suggestion that a backbench MP with no experience of government power - local or national - should be elevated to the cabinet in one fell swoop. I could have picked any number of similar cases from AWB's list - Andrew Slaughter for instance (though at least he ran the council he served on).

This isn't about individuals' ability or lack thereof: it's simply about the sanity of someone who suggests such inexperienced parliamentarians as cabinet members - you may as well include Bob Geldof as International Development Secretary, Stephen Hawking as Education Secretary and JK Rowling as Minister for Magic (in fact all three of those would be far more experienced in their fields than AWB's suggestions).

If you refuse to acknowledge that AWB's list is absurd on those grounds alone simply to show solidarity with one of your wackier comrades then so be it - but you'll lose even more credibility in the process jkit.

What's your constituency, incidentally?

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